The book, To Kill a Mockingbird, uses figurative language to help spark the reader's attention and to try and indulge the reader into the novel. One demonstration of how the author Harper Lee exercises figurative language in To Kill a Mockingbird is when Walter Cunningham is being introduced, “Walter looked as if he had been raised on fish food: his eyes,... were red-rimmed and watery” (25). The metaphoric example portrays Walter’s physical appearance to that of someone having a poor diet producing a visualization of Walter in the reader’s mind. Figurative language can also be used to emphasize humor in a novel. “Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun” (37), hints at some amusement